Richard Liu

Maybe contact BenQ (in the UK, I presume)? Tell them, theirs are the only monitors with this problem, some people even asking whether monitors with the same specs have the problem, would be a pity, such a nice monitor, etc., etc. Maybe they could lend you one. By the way, does this happen on Windows, too? For the record, I have a MacBook Pro 15" 2018 model running macOS 10.14.6.

Hi @MEB, I believe it has to do with the fact that the BenQ SW271 external display is a 27" display that is operating (by default) as if it were a 32" one, i.e. at 3840x2160. You might poll the users who have reported this problem and see what display and setting they are using to see whether there's a common thread. Thanks,

@MEB, Will this ever be fixed? It seems to be a "resident" bug. It's one of the first that I check for in each new release ... by which you can tell that I haven't upgraded to 1.9 (yet). Despite having a latent fondness for it, I would not mourn its demise.

Aha! Thanks. As you say, it's there in 1.8.6, too. I just wasn't looking under Adjustment.

@walt.farrell, I apologize for somewhat "hijacking" this thread, but I am rather uncertain about upgrading to 1.9 due to the many errors and "errors" being reported regarding things that used to work but no longer do, or work differently. Apple doesn't make downgrading exactly easy. I notice no Default preset in 1.8.6. Could you perhaps supply a screenshot of this in 1.9? I think I see in 1.8.6 the Adjustment icon and Layer > New Adjustment to which you refer. Thanks.

@Boldlinedesign Why not keep the old Mac just for running things that don't have updates to Big Sur/M1, and get an M1-Mac for running everything else?

Here is what Thom Hogan (ByThom.com) had to say:

@Patrick Connor Are there any new features or bug fixes in AFP 1.8.6 compared to the previous release for macOS? I miss the usual list.

@Chris B, I seen several problems that seem to be regressions, i.e., fixed in the previous version, "unfixed" in the current one. How is that possible? Do your developers not perform regression tests on updates?

Chris, 1.8.4 has just been released. Does it fix this problem -- incl. both issues?.

Is this the case with Catalina as well, to which I still intend to upgrade?

Yes, the laptop's 15.4" 2880 x 1800 and a BenQ SW271 27" 3840 x 2160.

Any news on this bug yet, Chris? Is it fixed in the latest beta?

This is what I'm referring to: This has been an annoying "feature" of many releases of Affinity Photo for Mac now. I believe I was told at one time that this was due to my not running the most recent version of macOS. Now that I have the time to upgrade to macOS 10.15 Catalina, I'm wondering whether this bug has since migrated to Catalina. I'm still on macOS 10.14.6 Mojave.

OK Chris, thanks. When I review some of the photos that I have printed since discovering that the printing was once again working with live filters I also see discrepancies between exported .jpeg, .tiff, display in AFP and the prints produced by AFP. These differ in a different way than the examples that I sent you, e. g. a wall of a ruin that has too much black in it, almost as if the contrast might have gone crazy.